skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, of course, it's not like Craigslist has done some damage to PadMapper and now needs to buy them as recompense or anything. But buying them would be the... gallant thing to do?

That is, it isn't so much what Craigslist "needs" to do to be in the right, here, but it's what they could do to be in the very right. To be better than any other random classifieds company, to generate viral PR, to be something you'd be happy to say you use, etc.
I don't think that her playing WoW is a problem, but some of the comments she made certainly could be.
Great write up! This is exactly what we're trying to accomplish with Listener Approved - https://ListenerApproved.com
Are you being intentionally obtuse or are you making a joke?

The clear answer is: Among many others, fiscal conservatives who don't care about hunting.... Am I missing something?

edit: huh... I suppose if you don't tout one political party's line here, you get downvoted. Good to know. I was just trying to point out that there are, in fact, people with diverse views that do not fit into the boxes many people presuppose. Kind of disappointing for a group that I had assumed was open-minded.
But would new forms of currently-infeasible encryption become possible at the same time? Many forms of encryption have fallen over the years as technology and mathematics have advanced; while at the same time better encryption methods have been developed.
Also, the trap question could easily have the opposite "right response" as it does in the post and still be defensible as something important to learn about a candidate. Another interviewer performing the same test sequence might want to see if the candidate can change subjects quickly, roll with new circumstances, and not get flustered or stuck on a single, obsolete outcome.
The Prusa Mendel sells for $799 on Makergear and can print at 1/10 the layer height of a Replicator 2. Thats the same price as the Pandabot (well, give or take $1), the advantage of the Pandabot is that it auto-calibrates and is excessively easy to assemble.

Although the official spec lists a 100 micron layer height, technically, I see no reason why a Pandabot couldn't print at the same resolution as a Prusa Mendel. Having seen both a Pandabot and a Prusa Mendel in person the electronics and hot end are similar enough that there is really no reason they couldn't achieve the same 10 micron resolutions on the PandaBot.

Sources:
- http://www.makergear.com/products/3d-printers
- http://blog.reprap.org/2011/12/001-layer-height-on-prusa-men...
I think Startup Chile is very different from traditional Silicon Valley incubators.

From what I understand, traditional incubators are focused on getting you mentored and funded. In start up chile, you're pretty much left to your own to decide what is best for you. If you are seeking to build a billion dollar company, it probably isn't the best fit. If on the other hand, you are seeking to build a life-style business and you wouldn't mind a bit of an adventure, it's a great option. There certainly is less social pressure in Santiago as tech is still very new there and expectations on your success are much lower. This can be good or bad depending on what you are seeking.
I agree. Same thing in JS. Also, this is precisely what I thought to do when he started asking about 7 and 11.

(function fizzbuzz(n, cases) {
var i = 0;
while (i++ < n) {
console.log(cases.reduce(function (prev, c) {
return i % c[0] ? prev : (prev || '') + c[1];
}, null) || i);
}
}(100, [[3, 'Fizz'], [5, 'Buzz'], [7, 'Bazz'], [11, 'Boo'], [13, 'Blip']]));

Excuse the terseness, I didn't want to make this post too lengthy, but it's still quite readable, IMO. Array.reduce was designed to solve problems like this.
Never point out to them that their favorite book is about a psychedelic trip through the desert involving all their favorite people doing all the things they claim to abhor.

Talking to burning bushes while in an altered state of conciousness, giving your teenage daughter to a group of gay men to do as they please, killing your kids cuz god told you to, having curses placed on you, hanging out with hookers. If they ever found out what kind of welfare state Jesus was running they'd plotz.

The bible would make an awesome zombie game. One could make a killing rebranding Left4Dead as Rapture: Left Behind.
What is being highlighted are the things she said in comments. Go look at the page.

They don't harp on the game very much. They do a little, probably because they see it as juvenile (not saying I agree). Mostly it's about the things she is saying.
What library are you using for customizing t-shirt? I am looking for something like that (non flash) for iphone case.
Amazon's cloud might be one of the coolest things I've seen in a while, hop on, get some of the best computing performance possible, get off and save some money. If you have a random data analysis problem that would take your computer three weeks, why not just pay $10 and get it done in two hours (plus a few hours of debugging)?

If the article is correct, Amazon paid 15 million for those cards which will be out of style in about two years (not that they have to get rid of them, but something faster, easier to maintain (if Nvidia starts opening up to Linux), with more memory and less power usage will come out. They'll have to fork over a large sum of money again to keep their top "on demand computing" title.

Amazon's cluster GPU right now has two Nvidia Tesla Fermi's in it. I'm going to assume Amazon will split their new cards into twos and fours, at about half of each. That's ~1750 new computers that are going to load up. Looking at the current rates of the cluster, it's $2.100 for an hour of the normal, I'll say it will be $4.200 for an hour on the jumbo with 4 GPUs.

They paid $15 million for just the cards. They need to get 2380952 hours of usage out of the machines to break even on the cards. They need to log 1360 hours per machine to break even, or have someone run all the machines at full bore for 56 days. As the cards are the most expensive component (assumption), and the total price of the computer will be about the price of one of the cards, we'll add a little bit of over head for all the other things they need to do to make it work - 120 days of full time use to break even on an investment of about $25 million (they need to buy lots of other things to put all the GPUs in, and worry about all that heat, and have a place to put it all, and have people install the new computers, etc...). I wonder what the actual usage of those clusters are, and if they've had anyone sign a deal saying we'll use the cluster for an entire month. That's a beautiful maneuver though, say CERN didn't want to do all the data analysis from the LHC in house because by the time they got to this part of the experiment, their technology they purchased previously would be way out of date. Just let Amazon do it. They will always have the latest technology, and you'll have an inexpensive way of leveraging that power.

Assuming they can make it all work (and I'm sure a lot of their decisions now are strategic decisions aimed at future investments) this is a great time to be a computer user, log on and get the best for a couple hours for a couple dollars. Instead of shelling out $1500 on a new computer personally, I could log a ton of EC2 hours getting significantly faster, more powerful machines, that never get 'stale', and their lives are much happier (my computer probably doesn't do anything "intensive" 70% of its life, whereas the EC2s are probably pushed a bit harder than that).
I think it would be wrong to reward the PadMapper author's ethically questionable behavior.
The Programming Language Doesn't Matter
I say this as an admitted partisan, but I see Republicans say and do a lot of pretty awful things. They range from the stupid, which is what this tactic is, to the downright deranged, as when Michelle Bachmann said that should she lose the election, she hadn't ruled out violent overthrow of the US government. Call me blinded by my political beliefs, but I don't remember the last time a Democrat threatened violent revolution.

Similarly, I don't remember Democrats blowing up buildings of people they disagree with or going to Republican funerals to say what horrible people they were.
Sorry, misinterpreted the "IMO".
From their perspective, $10K probably is the Honda Civic of 3D printers. They probably see all the low-cost stuff as "toys" that aren't usable for "real work". It's just the innovator's dilemma part infinity.
The ping pong ball question has been used a lot to see how/if engineers will attempt to give a reasonable estimate with proper caveats. No attempt is auto-fail, as is going into too much detail, and the rest is judged by the reasoning, approach, and if decent upper and lower bounds are given.

I imagine the reactor is similar but also checks if you can say where you are not competent and should defer or delegate.
Run NoScript, never whitelist facebook. Crude but effective.
Ghostery and antisocial are curated fOr you. But if you prefer more control, requestpolicy is recommended.
Well, we do have John Yoo over here in Berkeley. shrugs
Wait, are you arguing YouTube is an unworthy hack? They have got to have a pretty big infrastructure to manage and re-encode all that video.
Recording of Scam Telemarketers
> The linked article talks about a government agency (NYC Fire Department) who imposed a written exam for fire fighters...

Multiple choice question test: A, B, C, D. Not a written test. The word "imposed" is also a bit harsh. It's a test for fireman. Fireman that would be saving my ass in a fire.

> the judge ruled that the exam was discriminatory in results and was not shown (could not be shown) to be related to job performance.

The city is trying to remove the judge from the case and for his decision to be reversed.

You can also view the test for yourself (http://documents.nytimes.com/new-york-city-firefighter-exami...) and find out quickly it has everything to do with the duties of a fireman.

> If you think that job performance at a software company is linked to race, I recommend that you keep your opinion to yourself. Maybe you can use it to your private advantage! ... or maybe you have racist assumptions.

I don't think that. And I shouldn't have to defend myself from being called a racist just because I've entered a discussion that has different races involved (and am white, well, as white as a born-Russian gets). You should also concider how much damage throwing that keyword around can do.

My point was that it's no longer necessary to link the testing material to job performance. But only to simply show that test scores are different between the races. And then to be politically correct.

This has been the trend we've seen in the last 10 years with these types of lawsuits.

There are parts of this country that not only have socio-economic differences between the races that impact the abilities of the individuals, but in some cases have cultures that downright embrace ignorance. If you start testing people for any job that requires a slightly above average ability in those parts, you will get drastically different results in the grade average of the races. This should not be used against the employer.
If you put only designers in charge of any kind of a project or organization, you just end up with a different kind of disaster. Look at GNOME 3, for instance. It was a design-led initiative. It failed to produce usable software, it failed to attract any new users, and it actually managed to drive away an absolutely huge number of existing GNOME users. As it stands, it is one of the worst OSS disasters we've seen yet.

You need a balanced team. That's the only way to truly succeed.
It's mangled from the original article.
Doesn't Dropbox use the freemium model?

I generally agree with dchuk's comments.
> Even without limited liability, it's just not really illegal to pollute. If your pollution increases my risk of lung cancer by 250%, that is something that has a cost. You can put a dollar value on that statistical probability. But you can't sue over it, because by and large outside of medical malpractice it's nearly impossible to sue for statistical injuries.

Bodily harm is not the only form of harm for which one may be liable. Repeated dispersal of unwanted waste upon other's property could be considered property damage, even if the waste cannot or has not yet caused exposure related medical conditions upon their person.

In an alternate legal context, a society might decide that proving an ash residue repeatedly collected on your property matches ash repeatedly emitted by a factory is sufficient grounds for property damage litigation without requiring you to also prove bodily harm. However, this would raise costs on industry by requiring them to be located further from residential areas.

Different societies will arrive at different tradeoffs and balances on these issues through the use of non-market forces, which will influence the incidence of negative externalities as much as market forces.
The original article:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/a-behi...

And this is really intersting:

Finally LinkedIn tested, and ultimately chose to adopt, something surprising. The company embedded an extremely lightweight HTTP server in the application itself. The HTTP server exposes native functionality through a very simple REST API that can be consumed in the embedded HTML controls through standard JavaScript HTTP requests. Among other things, this server also provides access to the user’s contacts, calendar, and other underlying platform functionality.
>Can we find some other way to convey this message without using that same tired old phrase over and over and over again? As soon as I see this phrase by brain automatically shuts down because it tells me the author lacks creativity.

You keep using this word "creativity". I don't think it means what you think it means.

Not to mention that he didn't want to be "creative", he just wanted to make a specific point. Do you avoid common programming idioms because they've been "done before" or do you just use what is more effective for what you want to build?

>Are people who post to nerd forums really that deficient in English language skills? Or are they just hoplessly compelled to mimic the language used by others?

Or do they merely want to use the colloquiums of their day, their trade and their pop culture? How about that?

>Future posters: Let's be creative and devise another way to state this.

Or let's not. I can understand the intention and the purpose of that phrase in less time than it takes to even read it properly (because I can pattern-recognition the letter shapes it consists off). It's a very common and well understood idiom. It's also kind of fun.
uhm, you know the stats you just cited were for victims? Complainants are the people making the complaint. Says nothing about where the perpetrator behind the complaint comes from.
You think that this is a change?

Not long ago I listened to http://www.npr.org/2012/09/19/161436246/political-consulting... which discussed the origins of modern political consultants. One tactic included taking the worst things that a person ever said, and then running ads where you just quoted that person and tied them to those quotes.

Context did not matter. For example in a 1934 campaign they smeared Upton Sinclair with quotes taken from his fictional characters in his books. Of course any good author will include fictional characters who are very dislikable, and they will say things that the author does not agree with.

Smear websites are just a minor update on this age-old tactic.
From the API you can actually get a breakdown of that number into those component numbers.
The writer wasn't racist.
Being gallant doesn't make you better than other random classifieds companies. It makes you more gallant. That might be worth something to a few users, but it doesn't seem like the majority care.
Product Manager again.

Total units shipped is incredibly low in 3D printing such that there are very few economies of scale. A certain Brooklyn firm has shipped 13,000. Ever. They have massive share of total and annual global shipments, including the highest of high end industrial printers.

We think that the technology is ready to drive this to a seriously large audience. Our COGS benefits from using the global supply chain and designing for manufacturing. It also benefits from scale. Sperry-Burroughs used to hand assemble a few products, then the world changed.

We're not priced to hand assemble in Brooklyn and would never make money doing so. But there are other, very high quality and proven, options.
Ruby is one of the slowest languages you can think of, while Javascript on V8 is only 2.3X slower than C++ (median).

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-are-fas...

What I'm really surprised is that they got such a huge gain. Most projects I've worked on are DB or I/O bound. Maybe they store everything in RAM.
Good UI Design Is No Longer Optional
I'm not sure asking what comes after 0x000F is high-pressure.
I hate, hate, HATE gimmicky interview questions. At my job I am asked frequently to be on interview panels for my own department and sometimes other departments. It seems like every manager running the interviews throw out these trick questions at some point or another and I just cringe.

There is no magic recipe for interviews. Ask about the person, ask about their experience, see work examples if appropriate and ask some questions to gauge knowledge level for the position being applied for. Anything more and you are just going to second guess yourself out of a good candidate.
Anecdotally, gnome 3 attracted me. I now run a Ubuntu system, but I haven't switched my main desktop to Ubuntu because Mac OS X is still better (for me).
You have to start somewhere. Disruptive technology often starts out as a niche product.
This mistake was corrected 30 minutes after the article was published. The article went through two technical reviews but apparently such mistakes still happen. Thanks for bringing it to our attention — the wording was incorrect.
>Tokenadult, please continue reposting.

That would make certain searches of news.ycombinator.com more frustrating.

Web pages that duplicate other web pages have been around for almost 20 years now (documentation by the GNU project being a notable early example) and even with all of their resources, Google still fails to filter out duplicates a significant fraction of the time.
More specifically, if you're infringing something, it should be to gain momentum or some other asset that you can use once your ability to infringe goes away, which it will if/when you become successful.
WARNING: This presentation seems to crash Firefox for me. Had to view it in Chrome. Anyway...

"Disable cache to (re)gain some sanity" because Chrome continues to cache things it shouldn't, including the contents of file:// URLs and in some cases, even content with headers that specify it shouldn't be cached.

mumble grumble

Cool to see some of these features finally documented, though. I had no idea you could drag-drop elements to reorder them.

For those looking to try out the (useful!) Heap Snapshot tool, please be aware that it has a bad habit of crashing tabs. It tends to happen the most when a tab is already using a lot of memory, but sometimes it just happens. So don't do it on a tab that contains any state you might want to hang onto.

One cool feature they don't mention: You can edit code in the script debugger and then hit ctrl+s to update it live in the running page. It's pretty useful for experimenting or for adding tracing points to existing code.
Great tool -- just sent it to our designer. Thanks for sharing.
Simply, some sites don't enforce the full set of RFC rules, as such people actually have non-RFC-compliant email addresses that are valid.

How can you 'compile' a regular expression?

For very simple regular expressions, they might be decently fast, but as soon as you start pulling out the more complicated regular expressions needed for parsing, you get slower. Even simple repeats can have a lot of overhead if not used correctly, have a look at "Looking Inside The Regex Engine" at this link http://www.regular-expressions.info/repeat.html. An equivalent parser doesn't need to do any form of backtracking, and doesn't care about the structure. For example, I've seen an application use regular expressions for html parsing. After spending a while figuring out what they actually did, I found the source html had changed its whitespace, but not the DOM structure, which broke the regular expressions.

As for my reasoning above, I think a lot of 'abstraction' libraries would be faster by operating directly on the data, instead of just converting it to regular expressions. The beauty of regular expressions is the speed at which they can be written.
I think the word you're looking for is "subject to that product...".
noscript doesn't do anything about cookies, and you can still be tracked by embedded element requests & referrer data.
I suspect the primary difference is that now everybody is a published author. Even if you avoid the internet, you can have your "works" globally published by merely showing up to a party and having the misfortune to stand in the wrong place when someone takes a picture. In the past those sorts of things would likely be forgotten, if even ever developed. Now people publish them seconds after taking them.
1. No one needs to agree to a ToS to read CL data.

2. One cannot "steal" publicly accessible data.

3. A search interface with resulting links to the relevant post on CL; if PadMapper was a "competitor" then so is google.
SharpDevelop and IronPython will give you one-click packaging to exe. IronPython has a built-in compiler, so really you can use it with any IDE.

IronPython is actually very cool if you want/have to live in .Net Land: it's mature, simple, and supports Python 2.7.
Why are they moving from Ruby if it's just "string manipulation and database access"?

The problem is folks, as soon as you get a large number of users every compromise you made by using a toy language or database is magnified 1000 times. Google didn't implement in some scripting language to get to the market a few months early.
"Sergey [Brin] nodded his agreement, then asked about my six months in Siberia, casually switching to Russian to see how much I had picked up.

Finally, he leaned forward and fired his best shot, what he came to call 'the hard question'. "I'm going to give you five minutes," he announced. "When I come back, I want you to explain to me something complicated that I don't already know." He then rolled out of the room towards the snack area.

I looked at Cindy. "He's very curious about everything," she said. "You can talk about a hobby, something technical, whatever you want. Just make sure it's something you understand very well."

... I decided to go with the general theory of marketing, which was fresh in my mind because I'd only learned it recently..

I went to the whiteboard and furiously drew circles and squares and unleashed arrows like Legolas. I was nervous, but not very. Sergey bounced on a ball and asked questions that required me to make up things up on the spot...

...

Later I found out that Sergey did this with everyone he interviewed. An hour wasted with an unqualified candidate wasn't a total loss if he gained insight into something new."

"I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee #59" - Douglas Edwards
Mediterranean Diet:  The Best Heart Healthy Diet
Where can I see this?
Re-reading my post, it sounds more "oh, it's simple" than I'd intended. I was just saying that there are potential approaches to cutting out spam other than filtering based on message content (which would be difficult-to-impossible in the case of encrypted email even with a good homomorphic encryption algorithm), and depending on exactly what the parent poster was trying to do they may (conceivably) be viable.
Aside from legacy code, why do they need the Win32 APIs?
Linux 3.7 Kernel to Support Multiple ARM Platforms
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